Barnewitz

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Barnewitz
Municipality Märkisch Luch
Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 51 ″  N , 12 ° 36 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 32 m
Incorporation : December 31, 2002
Postal code : 14715
Barnewitz, farmer end in the direction of Garlitz

Barnewitz [ baʁˈneːvɪt͡s ] is a district of the municipality of Märkisch Luch in the Havelland district in Brandenburg with 315 inhabitants (as of August 1, 2018). The inhabited districts or residential areas of Butenfelde and Linde belong to Barnewitz .

The name is usually pronounced on the second syllable with a long “e”.

Location and topography

The place is 32 meters above sea level. NHN on the southern edge of the Havelländisches Luch nature reserve , after which the community to which it belongs is named. The district is 23.07 square kilometers in area one of the largest districts of the municipality Märkisch Luch. To the south and east of the town is the Barnewitzer Heide, which is 87 meters above sea level. Reached NHN. The state road from Retzow to Marzahne runs through Barnewitz .

history

Early summer view over the Feldmark from the south to Barnewitz

It is an originally Slavic settlement that was first mentioned in 1289 as Bornewitz , the Slavic born stands for pine. Margrave Waldemar pledged the place in 1315 to the cathedral monastery of Brandenburg Cathedral . In 1317 the Brandenburg bishop Johannes von Thuchem sold the village. According to Riedel's Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis from 1849, Barnewitz and many other Brandenburg villages around Brandenburg an der Havel were obliged to maintain the dams in Brandenburg by the order of Margrave Ludwig of June 9, 1335 .

The place was badly destroyed in the Second World War . On December 31, 2002, Barnewitz merged with the communities of Buschow , Garlitz and Möthlow to form the new community of Märkisch Luch.

politics

After several localities have merged to form one large municipality, there is no longer a mayor for the formerly independent localities , but responsibility for the development of the district rests with a volunteer mayor . Andreas Tutzschke ( Independent Voting Group Barnewitz (UWB)) has held this office since 2008 .

Infrastructure and communication

Barnewitz has a day care center. The place is within the public transport by the line 578 of the Havelbus transport company (HVG) with Rathenow and Kiek and Havelbus line 670 with Nauen and Premnitz connected. The nearest train station is Buschow, around two kilometers to the northeast. Barnewitz has the postcode 14715 and the telephone area code 033876.

Worth seeing

Barnewitz Church and the belfry next to it
  • Evangelical village church:
It is the oldest building in the village and was built from granite boulders in the 13th century and rebuilt several times over the centuries. On April 18, 1944, both the building and the interior, including a valuable baroque organ by the organ builder Joachim Wagner, burned out completely. The church building was rebuilt in a greatly reduced size between 1967 and 1974, the new consecration took place on April 21, 1974. Since the church has only a small ridge tower , the bell by Franz Sebastian Voillard from 1662 hangs in a belfry next to the new building. The prayer room has a capacity of 80 people.
  • Traueiche in the Linde district

Personalities

The best-known resident is the lawyer and writer Juli Zeh .

Web links

Commons : Barnewitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. State Office for Data Processing and Statistics (LDS) - Contribution to statistics - Historical municipality directory of the State of Brandenburg from 1875 to 2005 - Havelland district from December 2006
  2. ^ Christian Wilhelm Spieker: Church and Reformation history of the Mark Brandenburg . First part. Published by Duncker and Humblot. Berlin 1839. p. 434.
  3. Volume 9, p. 32
  4. StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
  5. Status: Local election on September 28, 2008.
  6. Andreas Kitschke: Churches of the Havelland (reading sample) . Bebra Verlag Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-937233-78-9 , p. 21/22: Dorfkirche Bahnitz .